Gambia’s Isatou Touray has been campaigning against female genital mutilation (FGM) for about 25 years, and even went to prison because of her work, but finally it seems to pay off: Gambia is preparing a law to ban the practice.

Despite rumors that she was missing or admitted in a mental hospital, the lawyer of Tunisian FEMEN activist Amina stated that she never went missing, and is safe.

Although female genital mutilation (FGM) is forbidden now in Egypt, and has, according to most people, nothing to do with Islam, some of Egypt’s Islamists are determined to have it legalized once again.

Expensive weddings has been cited as the main reason for falling marriage rates in the Gulf nation of Qatar. The grooms say that they cannot pay for the wedding extravaganza that many potential brides state as a requirement for getting married.

Author Shereen El Feki writes for CNN about the Muslim Brotherhood’s opposition to a recent UN document on violence against women, linking it to broader trends in the Arab world when it comes to talking about sex and politics.

On the Indonesian island of Lombok, it is quite common to kidnap a bride to get married, and then divorce her as soon as times are tough, which leaves the women, according to local laws, with nothing to take care of themselves and their families.

Diana Kastrati was allegedly killed by her husband in 2011. The Constitutional Court of Kosovo ruled that local authorities had failed to protect Diana Kastrati; a case judge failed to issue a protective order, when she requested it. According to a local human rights activist, the state is responsible for her murder, and the fact that her husband is still not arrested.

A Moroccan teenage house maid has died of serious burns last Sunday; her employer is in police custody. Last year Human Rights Watch called on the Moroccan authorities to end the recruitment and exploitation of underage domestic workers.

The targeted killings in the recent war in Afghanistan (and Pakistan) were, and are, often justified as shielding women from violence, but women fall victim to these attacks too, and in more than one way.

Around 80% of the French public favor stricter “anti-veil” laws, which not only forbids veils, but also other religious dress and insignia in schools, nurseries and child care facilities of any kind.

A Kashmiri couple has been arrested for murdering their own daughter in the name of honor. The couple has admitted to the murder, and said the 18-year-old unmarried girl was pregnant. So-called honor killings were once rare in Kashmir, but are now happening more frequently.

The Muslim community of Osun state, Nigeria, is taking the Osun state government to court and is seeking the order to allow all female students of public primary and secondary schools to wear the hijab in school.